Abstract: The Alphonzo B. Bowers Papers, (SAFR 22225, HDC 1618) consists of correspondence, drawings, patent bulletins, court proceedings
and images regarding the inventor, Alphonzo Benjamin Bowers (1830-circa 1926) and the development of the hydraulic dredge
and system and infringement lawsuits. Inclusive dates are 1657-1925 and bulk dates are 1863-1925. The collection has been
processed to the file unit level and is open for use with no restrictions.

Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other
case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.

The collection was retained by Bowers' caregiver after his death and donated to San Francisco Maritime National Historical
Park in 2010.

Historical or Biographical Note

Alphonzo B. Bowers, Alphonzo Benjamin Hay-Thompson Bowers or A. B. Bowers, was the inventor and patentee of the hydraulic
dredger and the hydraulic system. He was born September 25, 1830, in West Baldwin, Maine. He was the son of Sarah (Hay) Bowers
and Wilder Bowers, both of Maine. He moved to San Francisco is 1867. The 1910 United States Federal Census has Bowers recorded
as living in New York City at the age of 79 and the 1920 U.S. Census has him listed as living in Lynn, Massachusetts at the
age of 89. Bowers' documents his age as 96 in his autobiography. Information posted on Bowers.com states he passed away at
the age of 95.

Bowers' health began to decline in his early twenties. In turn, he traveled to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama
in 1853. He taught at several schools in Sonoma County, California. In 1863, he was employed to finish a farm map of the county
and was never paid for it. To record this event he wrote and published HISTORY OF THE BOWERS MAP. In San Francisco, he built
models of his hydraulic dredging inventions. He contracted typhoid fever and remained unemployed. In 1873, he was appointed
Secretary of a Board of Engineers to remodel the Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California.

It appears the Patent Office delayed processing of his applications for several years. He could not afford an attorney and
so began his study of patent laws and traveling to Washington to secure the patents. In 1884, he was successful in completing
12 invention patents. A patent bulletin from May 26, 1885 shows and describes patent number 318,859 as the A. B. Bowers Dredging
Machine and A. B. Bowers as the inventor.

In 1888, Bowers' sued Colonel A. W. Von Schmidt for infringement and won. This suit was the basis for many future lawsuits
regarding infringement of his patents. Some of the companies sued were Williams & Bixler, the Golden State and Miners Iron
Works, the San Francisco Bridge Company, and the Pacific Coast Dredging and Reclamation Company (San Francisco), L. W. Bates
of Chicago and the New York Dredging Company. An 1897 appeal case ruling declared Bowers to be the inventor of the hydraulic
system of dredging.

After moving back to the northeastern United States, he continued fighting infringement battles and wrote journal articles
regarding hydraulic dredges, politics, engineering, the economy and religion.

Collection Scope and Content

The Alphonzo B. Bowers Papers, (SAFR 22225, HDC 1618) consists of correspondence, drawings, patent bulletins, court proceedings
and images regarding the inventor, Alphonzo Benjamin Bowers (1830-circa 1926) and the development of the hydraulic dredge
and system and infringement lawsuits. Inclusive dates are 1657-1925 and bulk dates are 1863-1925. The collection has been
processed to the file unit level and is open for use with no restrictions.

Affidavits and exhibit drawings from specific courts cases, United States Patent Office documents, illustrations, and correspondence
in the form of written letters and telegrams record A. B. Bowers infringement lawsuits against several entities. New York
Dredging Company, Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company, Roderick G. Ross, San Francisco Bridge Company, and Steers make up the
largest volume of lawsuit documents. Much of the correspondence is between Bowers and Miller, his attorney. Documents cover
mostly California but due to Bowers contracting for various projects and providing licenses for use of the hydraulic dredge,
Cuba, Oregon, Mississippi, Indiana and New York are represented as well. Subjects not pertaining directly to lawsuits include:
Bowers' family history, dredge history drafts, agreements and licenses, Aladdin Coal Mining Company, American Magnesite Company,
patent bulletins, dredging contracts, Physician's Who's Who Publishing Company, receipts, Packard Gun Company, Los Angeles
Harbor
Company, and San Fernando Sugar Plantation.

Collection Arrangement

Organized in 7 series: Series 1. Autobiographical and Bowers family history, undated and 1864-1925. Series 2. Bound volumes
and publications, 1866-1918. Series 3. Correspondence, undated and 1885-1925. Series 4. Drafts, undated and 1863-1902. Series
5. Dredge images, undated and 1657-1923. Series 6. Legal proceedings, undated and 1858-1917. Series 7. Subject files, undated
and 1830-1926.

The papers were arranged in seven series keeping any original order and then according to material type. Series 1, 4, and
5 are original groupings and the contents retain original order. Series 2, 6, and 7 are also original groupings but the contents
have been arranged in alphabetical and then ascending chronological order. Series 3 retains orginal grouping with its contents
in ascending chronlogical order.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Dredges.

Dredges--California--History

Dredging.

Hydraulic engineering.

Bowers, Alphonzo Benjamin

California

Blueprints

glass negative

technical drawings

vandyke photoprints

Photographic prints

Patents

Maps

Engineer

Channels (Hydraulic engineering)

Collection Contents

Series 1. Autobiographical and Bowers family history, (SAFR 22225, HDC1618) contains autobiographical information about Alphonzo
B. Bowers and Bowers family genealogy research. Inclusive dates are undated and 1864-1925. The bulk dates are 1907-1925. This
series is processed and described to the file unit level and is open for use.

Arrangement

.3 LF of materials are arranged in two (2) file units, autobiographical and family history materials, with two (2) folders
in each, contained in a portion of a document box.

Series 2. Bound volumes and publications, (SAFR 22225, HDC1618) contains bound volumes of legal proceedings, engineering and
lawsuit publications, and newspaper articles that are either about Bowers or of interest to him. Inclusive dates are 1888-1915
and the bulk dates are 1888-1915. The series is processed and described to the file unit level and is open for use.

Arrangement

Arranged in 28 file units by accession and then alphabetically. File units 1 through 13 are from the first accession. File
units 14 through 28 are from a second accession received at a later date. This series is housed in 46 folders in 7 document
boxes and 2 manuscript boxes.

Box 1

File Unit 2.01.
37th Annual Report of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners book,
1915

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

One copy: 37th Annual Report of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, 1915 in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1915.

Box 1

File Unit 2.02.
An Appeal to Justice pamphlet,
1902-1903

Physical Description:
5 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Various versions of An Appeal for Justice. Appears to be a self published printing. Five folders. Inclusive dates: 1902-3.

Newspaper clippings and archival copies. Subjects include articles about Bowers and some seem to be subjects of interest to
him in three folders. Inclusive dates: 1907-1925

Box 6

File Unit 2.09.
The Reclamation of the Everglades of Florida pamphlet,
1902

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Prospectus of the Florida East Coast Drainage and Sugar Company, St. Augustine, Florida with lists of officers, directors,
and financial agents and costs of stock being sold in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1902.

Six soft cover volumes held together in a hard cover format: Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses,
Works connected with Ocean and Inland Navigation, Notes on the works in progress or completed in 1913, Executive Committee-Office
of the Secretary General Brussels. Countries included: Brussels, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, France, Algeria, Corsica,
Tunisia, Monaco, Brazil, Canada, Belgium, and Holland in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1914.

Box 18

File Unit 2.14.
Advisory Board of Consulting Engineers report,
1908

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Report to the Governor (of New York) of the Advisory Board of Consulting Engineers upon its work relating to the Barge Canal
from January 1, 1907-January 1, 1908, Transmitted to Legislature April 16, 1908, Albany J. B. Lyon Company, State Printers
1908 in one folder.

Box 18

File Unit 2.15.
Barge Canal bulletin,
1908

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Barge Canal Bulletin, Series XI, No. 11; State of New York Department of the State Engineer and Surveyor; November 1918 in
one folder.

No. 12,455 in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Northern District of California. (Hon. W. W. Morrow, C. J.)
In the Matter of the Disbarment of John L. Boone, Attorney and Counselor at Law. Transcript of Record. Geo. Spaulding & Co.,
Prs., 414 Clay St. San Francisco. One folder. Date is after 1897 and is therefore assumed to be circa 1898.

1. Alphabetical List of Members and Delegates of the House of Representatives and the Standing and Select Committees of which
they are members. Fifty-seventh congress, first session, commencing Monday December 2, 1901. 2. Alphabetical List of Senators
and Committees. Fifty-seventh congress, first session. February 7, 1902. 3. & 4. Supplementary List of Attorneys registered
in the United States Patent Office since January 2, 1902 (2 copies). Four pamphlets in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1901-2.

Two copies of United States Patent Office Patent Laws edition of December 1, 1912; Department of the Interior Washington Government
Printing Office 1912. One folder. Date is 1912.

Box 18

File Unit 2.23.
Report upon the Bowers Dredger pamphlet,
ca. 1884

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Two versions of Report upon the Bowers Dredger by Pierce, undated but one has a notation dated 1884. Both copies have notations
stating they were used as exhibits in lawsuits. One folder. Inclusive date is circa 1884.

Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States adopted January 7, 1884, and the Rules of Practice for the Circuit and District
Courts of the United States in Equity and Admiralty Cases, and Orders in References to Appeals from Court of Claims; Washington:
Government Printing Office. 1893. One folder. Inclusive dates are 1884, 1893.

Three version of Rules of Practice in the United States Patent Office. One folder. Inclusive dates are 1899-1907.

Box 18

File Unit 2.26.
San Francisco Harbor book,
1908

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

San Francisco Harbor, Its Commerce and Docks with a Complete Plan for Development being the Report of the Engineers of the
Federated Harbor Improvement Associations. Luther Wagoner and Col. W. H. Heuer, U. S. A. 1908. One folder.

Box 18

File Unit 2.27.
The Spanish-American Iron Company book,
1908

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

A copy of First Mortgage for the Spanish-American Iron Company to Girard Trust Company, Trustee of $5,000,000, first mortgage
twenty-year sinking fund gold coupon bonds; July 1. 1907. One folder.

Series 3. Correspondence, (SAFR 22225, HDC1618), contains communication in the form of letters, greetings cards and telegrams
that are personal and business related. Inclusive dates are 1885-1925. The bulk dates are 1904-1921. The series is processed
and described to the file unit level and is open for use.

Arrangement

Arranged in eight file units by accession and then alphabetically. File units 1 through 4 are from the first accession. File
units 5 through 8 are from a second accession received at a later date. Documents in each folder are in original order. See
file unit level descriptions for more folder level detail. This series is housed in 16 folders in 1.5 document boxes.

Box 9

File Unit 3.1.
Bowers' Old Correspondence,
1900-1908

Physical Description:
2 folder.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit retains the original order of a file created by Bowers that was marked Bowers Old Corresp No Value". The file
unit is roughly in descending chronological order in two folders. Inclusive dates: 1900-1908."

Box 9

File Unit 3.2.
Correspondence,
1885-1925

Physical Description:
5 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence found loose within the collection and assembled into ascending chronological order in five folders. Inclusive
dates: 1885-1925.

Box 9

File Unit 3.3.
Correspondence: undated,
undated

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence found without dates in one folder. Inclusive dates: undated.

Box 9

File Unit 3.4.
Telegrams,
1905-1916

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Telegrams originally filed together and original order is retained. A private cable code is included that deciphers code words
assumed to have been used in the telegrams. One folder. Inclusive dates: 1905-1916.

Box 19

File Unit 3.5.
Letter copying books,
1907-1911

Physical Description:
2 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Two Letter Copying Books with directions in one of them for copying, both have original roller and contain original letters
on copying paper. Two folders. Inclusive dates: 1907-1911.

Box 19

File Unit 3.6.
1900 to 1905 correspondence,
1900-1904

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence removed from folder marked: "1900-1905, Nearly all letters prior to April 1906 were destroyed in San Francisco
1900-1-2-3-4". This folder has been re-housed in one folder and includes a copy of the original folder label.

Box 19

File Unit 3.7.
1904 to 1911 correspondence,
1905-1911

Physical Description:
2 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence removed from folder marked: "1904-1911 including 1905-6-7-8-9-10." Nearly all papers and letters destroyed
by fire up to Apr. 18 1906. This folder has been housed in two folders and a copy of the original folder label is included.

Box 19

File Unit 3.8.
Loose correspondence,
undated, 1885, 1901-1922

Physical Description:
2 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Loose correspondence from the second accession compiled and grouped by year in ascending chronological order. Two folders.
Inclusive dates: undated, 1885, 1901-1922.

Box 10, 19

Series 4.
Drafts, undated, 1863-1902 (bulk 1863-1902)

Physical Description:
1.75 linear feet

Language(s):
In English

Scope and Content

Series 4. Drafts, (SAFR 22225, HDC1618), contains drafts that appear to mostly pertain to legal documents including affidavits
and contracts, articles, and dredge history. The inclusive dates are undated and 1863-1902. The bulk dates are 1863-1902.
The series is processed and described to the file unit level and is open for use.

Many of the file units were originally rolled in a 'pigeon hole' style and the paper is thin with glue, tears, and rust. Use
with caution.

Arrangement

Arranged in 10 file units by accession and then alphabetically. File units 1 through 8 are from the first accession. File
units 9 through 10 are from a second accession received at a later date. Each file unit retains original order. This series
is housed within 18 folders in 2.5 document boxes.

Box 10

File Unit 4.01.
Drafts,
undated, 1863-1902

Physical Description:
6 folder.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of 6 folders retain Bowers' original order and are drafts concerning patents, dredging and filling, and court
cases. Inclusive dates: 1863-1902 & undated.

Box 10

File Unit 4.02.
Drafts (from rolls) in original order,
undated

Physical Description:
2 folder.
Having been rolled for many years, viewing these documents is a difficult task, use caution and map weights.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of two folders retain Bowers' original order and are drafts concerning court cases. Inclusive dates: undated.

Box 10

File Unit 4.03.
Drafts: Contracts,
undated

Physical Description:
1 folder.
Having been rolled for many years, viewing these documents is a difficult task, use caution and map weights.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of one folder retains Bowers' original order and contains drafts concerning contracts relating to dredging
and filling. Inclusive dates: undated.

Box 10

File Unit 4.04.
Drafts: Dredge Details,
undated

Physical Description:
1 folder.
Having been rolled for many years, viewing these documents is a difficult task, use caution and map weights.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of one folder retains Bowers' original order and contains drafts concerning contracts relating to the hydraulic
dredge machine. Inclusive dates: undated.

Box 10

File Unit 4.05.
Drafts: Historical Old X,
undated

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of one folder retains Bowers' original order and are drafts concerning history of dredging in America. Inclusive
dates: undated.

Box 10

File Unit 4.06.
Drafts: History of the Dredge,
1882

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of one folder retains Bowers' original order and contains drafts concerning history of the dredge machine.
Inclusive dates: 1882.

Box 10

File Unit 4.07.
Drafts: Affidavits,
ca. 1884

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of one folder retains Bowers' original order and contains drafts concerning affidavits for lawsuits. Inclusive
dates: circa 1884

Box 10

File Unit 4.08.
Drafts: Proceedings,
undated

Physical Description:
1 folder.
Having been rolled for many years, viewing these documents is a difficult task, use caution and map weights.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of one folder retains Bowers' original order and contains drafts concerning proceedings for lawsuits. Inclusive
dates: undated.

Box 19

File Unit 4.09.
Drafts,
undated

Physical Description:
3 folder.

Scope and Content Note

This file unit of three folders retain Bowers' original order and are drafts concerning patents, dredging and filling, and
court cases. Undated.

One notepad with drafts of what appear to be affidavits for lawsuits written by Bowers and for his suits against San Francisco
Bridge Company and Florida East Coast Railway Company, circa 1910. One folder.

Series 5. Dredge images, (SAFR 22225, HDC1618), contains various formats including copies, prints, negatives, and original
drawings of dredges and parts. It appears the majority of the copies were used in exhibits during unidentified lawsuits. The
purpose for the prints and associated negatives is unclear, but may have been for promotion and/or design development. Blueprints
and maps seem to related to construction or dredging projects and dredge development. Inclusive dates include 1657-1915. The
bulk dates are 1880-1915. The series is processed and described to the file unit level and is open for use.

Arrangement

Arranged in seven file units in alphabetical order by title. The second accession accretion to the collection restarts the
alphabetical order of the file units at File Unit 6. This series is housed in three map folders, 28 folders in one document
box and two manuscript boxes, two photo boxes, and seven rolls of over sized materials house the series.

Box #11 Folder 1 of 8: includes some drawings for exhibits and others have unidentified purpose and are various formats of
early copying methods, undated, 1880, 1868, 1898, and 1902, 1911, 1912. Folder 2 of 8: One bound album of drawings with index
relating to an unidentified court case presumably after 1899. Folders 3-8: of 8 Patent illustrations of dredges, undated and
1885-1904.

Lithograph prints with drawings of patent designs for dredge parts, numbers, inventor and witnesses. Some are dated while
others are undated. Also included are copies of a letter from the patent examiner, 1888. One folder. Inclusive dates are 1887-8
& 1904.

Series 6. Legal proceedings, (SAFR 22225, HDC1618), contains originals and copies of affidavits, notices, and other official
documentation regarding various court cases and patent infringement claims. Inclusive dates are 1858-1915. Bulk dates are
1885-1911. The series is processed and described to the file unit level and is open for use.

Arrangement

Arranged in 22 file units by accession and then alphabetically. File units 1 through 19 are from the first accession. File
units 20 through 22 are from a second accession received at a later date. This series is housed in 52 folders in 4.5 document
boxes.

Box 20: Copy of Bill of Exception and Notes of Oral Argument and other legal documents. Two folders. Inclusive dates: 1891-1917.

Box 13, 21

File Unit 6.15.
Bowers vs. Trumbo legal documents,
1902-1917

Physical Description:
8 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Box 13: Also known as the Cuba case: correspondence, notes, telegrams, and legal documents. These were originally bound in
notebooks and the folders retain the order; Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Woodman, Proceeding and Patent, a scrapbook of Cuban newspaper
clippings. In 6 folders. Inclusive dates: 1902-1917.

Box 21: Also known as the Cuba case: correspondence and legal documents, some documents are in Spanish. These were originally
bound in notebooks and the folders retain the order; Vol. 1 (1908). In the second folder are more legal documents relating
to the case. Two folders. Inclusive dates: 1908-1912.

An incomplete document handwritten in French and stamped Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers. One folder. Dated 1866 and 1897.

Box 14-15, 21

Series 7.
Subject files, undated, 1830-1926 (bulk 1904-1921)

Physical Description:
2 linear feet

Language(s):
In English

Scope and Content

Series 7. Subject files, (SAFR 22225, HDC1618), contains files arranged by subject and then chronological when possible. Inclusive
dates are 1830-1926. Bulk dates are 1904-1921. The series is processed and described to the file unit level and is open for
use.

Arrangement

Arranged in 43 file units by accession and then alphabetically. File units 1 through 32 is from the first accession. File
units 33 through 43 are from a second accession received at a later date. Original order at the file unit level generally
ascends chronologically. This series is housed in 65 folders in 2.5 document boxes.

Box 14

File Unit 7.01.
Affidavit of Bowers' inventions by City and County of San Francisco legal documents,
1895 April

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Legal document: affidavit that describes Bowers' model for patent # 318,859 with illustrations and text in one folder. One
folder. Date: April 1895.

Removed or Separated Material

This document describes the model that is housed in SAFR museum collection.

Documents created by the American Bar Association and Bowers relating to the validation of patent licenses and a patent injunction
connected with the use of patented inventions by the United States Government. One folder. Inclusive dates: undated, 1902-1925.

Certificates and correspondence with stockholders. One folder. Inclusive dates: 1896-1913.

Box 14

File Unit 7.10.
Bowers' ephemera,
1904-1926

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Bulletins, brochures, publications relating to Panama, religion, education, Shriners, and International Exposition of 1911
in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1904-1926.

Box 14

File Unit 7.11.
Bowers' notes,
undated, 1922

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Three notebooks with design information, both textual and visual in one folder. Inclusive dates: undated, 1922.

Box 14

File Unit 7.12.
Contracts: Dredging,
1899-1910

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Documents pertaining to contracts for Bowers' company in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1899-1910.

Box 14

File Unit 7.13.
Debt settlement correspondence,
1905-1910

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Debt settlement documents and correspondence between Bowers and attorney Miller in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1905-1910.

Box 14

File Unit 7.14.
Dredge application,
1910-1911

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Application for a patent for dredge: serial number 527.886 in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1910-1911

Box 14

File Unit 7.15.
Dredge figures and drawings,
1881, 1883

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

A handwritten document with drawn and colored figures with full descriptions that appears to be Bowers' original submission
for his first patent. It is witnessed twice in two different years by the same person in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1881,
1883

Box 14

File Unit 7.16.
Genesco, Illinois blueprints,
undated, 1905

Physical Description:
9 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Blueprints relating to the Green River and one of the Specifications for the Construction of the Ditches and Channels of the
Green River of Illinois. Nine folders. Undated.

Box 15

File Unit 7.17.
Grafton Press contract,
1908-1909

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Contract with a publication company documents in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1908-1909.

Box 15, 21

File Unit 7.18.
Letterhead and stamp examples,
undated, 1921

Physical Description:
2 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Letterhead and stamp examples for Bowers' dredging company in one folder. Inclusive dates: undated, 1921.

Box 15

File Unit 7.19.
Los Angeles Harbor Company pamphlet,
undated

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Document explaining the company's plan to develop the coast for commerce. One folder. Undated.

Drafts of what Bowers titled Manuscript Materials. It is not clear what the resulting publication was. File is in original
order and housed in one folder. Undated.

Box 15, 21

File Unit 7.22.
Mex[ico] Mine[s] reports,
undated, 1905-1908

Physical Description:
2 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Box 15: Document and envelope regarding the Compania Restauradora del Mineral de la Bonanza in the district of Zimapam, Hidalgo,
Mexico in one folder. Inclusive date: 1908.

Box 21: Reports regarding El Zopilote in Mexico, Real de Taxco Pedregal Mine, and the Cinco Estrellas Mines also in Mexico.
One folder: one document is dated 1905, another 1906, and the rest are undated.

Box 15, 21

File Unit 7.23.
Nassau correspondence and notes,
1903-4, 1912

Physical Description:
3 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Box 15: Documents regarding the improvement of the harbor in Nassau, Bahamas including a printed letter to the Governer of
Bahamas, Bennett in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1904, 1912.

Box 21: A Study of Nassau Harbor new Providence, Bahama (2 copies), March 1904 and a letter and handwritten notes. Two folders.
Inclusive dates: 1903-4, 1912.

Box 15

File Unit 7.24.
Notes of travel notebook,
1908-1909

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

One notebook in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1908-1909.

Box 15

File Unit 7.25.
Packard company papers,
1909-1921

Physical Description:
3 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Letters, petitions, patent bulletins, and other documents regarding the use and infringement of Packard patented gun parts
in Canada in three folders. Inclusive dates: 1909-1921.

Box 15, 21

File Unit 7.26.
Patent documents,
1830-1912

Physical Description:
5 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Box 15: Various Patents and Rotary Engines 1830-1916, Patent Bulletins 1869-1884, Patent Notes 1877-1912, and Patent Office
1872-1908, all record various aspects of patent application, creation, infringement, and the United States Patent Office at
the turn of the century in four folders. Four folders. Inclusive dates: 1830-1912.

Box 21: Letter from Bowers to the Commissioner of Patents, November 28, 1887. One folder.

This file unit documents the fact that Bowers sold his portion of the company to Kolle in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1904-1912.
Also see File Unit: Publishing: Genealogy and Who's Who for related correspondence and receipts.

Box 15

File Unit 7.28.
Public No. 241 public notice,
July 25, 1912

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

One copy of a congressional act regarding construction, repair, and preservation of public works on rivers, harbors, etc...
One folder. Date: 1912.

Box 15, 21

File Unit 7.29.
Receipts,
undated, 1902-1916

Physical Description:
3 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Box 15: This file unit includes receipts for memberships, and utilities. It also includes canceled checks and register tapes
in one folder in ascending chronological order. Inclusive dates: 1904-1913.

Box 21: Receipts grouped by year in ascending chronological order within two folders. Inclusive dates: undated and 1902-1916.

Box 15

File Unit 7.30.
Report on Mr. X [Lindon Bates],
undated, ca. 1900

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

One typed account relating Bowers' license to operate in Illinois in one folder. Inclusive dates: undated, probably after
1900.

Box 15

File Unit 7.31.
San Fernando Sugar Plantation document,
undated

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

One document that is possibly a proposal for development or sale in one folder. Undated.

Box 15

File Unit 7.32.
Securities Rapid Delivery company documents,
1907

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Documents relating to Bowers involvement and ownership in the company in one folder. Date: 1907

Box 21

File Unit 7.33.
1909 diary,
1909

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Bowers' personal calendar with entries explaining what actions took place on certain days. One bound calendar in one folder.
Date: 1909.

Box 21

File Unit 7.34.
Bank books,
1922-1926

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Bowers' personal bank books from the Security Trust Company Lynn, Mass and one checkbook from Heard National Bank of Jacksonville,
Florida. Three bound books in one folder. Inclusive dates: 1922-1926.

Box 21

File Unit 7.35.
Bowers' properties legal documents,
1903, 1907

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Documents related to ownership of properties in New York and California. One folder. Inclusive dates: 1903 & 1907.

Box 21

File Unit 7.36.
Bracklee company legal documents,
1909

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Documents showing the sale of the Bracklee Company. One folder. Date: 1909.

Correspondence and receipts in original order that relate to publishing books. Subjects include Bowers' family history, the
Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, and the International Who's Who (Who's Who in the World). One folder in original order.
Inclusive dates: 1911-1918.

Box 21

File Unit 7.43.
Watt correspondence,
1905-1909

Physical Description:
1 folder.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence within one folder originally marked Watt. Watt appears to be Alex Watt, Superintendent of Griffiths, McDermott
& Watt Dredging Co. Most of the correspondence is between Watt and Howard Trumbo, Bowers, and Miller. One folder. Inclusive
dates: 1905-1909.